This is intended. Previously, all links to and from a portal were dropped when it was moved. Since this was abused to destroy fields, the links are now retained. It must also be in the old position, otherwise unintended cross-links could occur.
The plugin compares link data (portal guid and location) with portal data (guid and location) and if there are difference, the portal is marked as moved.
It may be necessary to click on the placeholder to load the portal data if the bug mentioned above occurs. However, if the portal is present in the Intel data, this extra step is not necessary.
I vehemently disagree. In order to plan where to look for nominations that will show up in Pokemon Go, and to understand how close a Level 14 cell is to a new gym (or if it has reached the limit), we need a map to replace iitc for PoGo use.
IItc stop updating new waypoints that got accepted and my only tool to know where to spot the correct location for a new wayspot before the transaction they should allow this tool to work for pokemon go trainer or at least give us an app where nominations can be evaluated correctly with each cell.
IItc let me see the occupied spaces on pokemon go map but with no sync is useless. Nomination will be worst at least in the locations perspective. So many nominations will be lost .
Wayfare and Pokémon Go should consider this before.
IITC is a 3rd party app that maps onto the Ingress Intel maps. There are scripts / overlays that have been written to allow Ingress and Pogo Players to use the Intel maps for things like Wayfarer. So whilst IITC isn’t “anything to do with Pogo”, it is used by Pogo players who wish to submit Wayspots.
I have moved a thread about IITC/intel map from the ingress sync cadence to here as it had wandered off the topic of the frequency of ingress syncing and was more about map tools.
This is “game agnostic” thinking. Now that the Scopely map will primarily serve Pokemon GO, whether or not a wayspot will appear in the game is perfectly reasonable to consider before or while nominating it.
No one should ever misplace a wayspot. However, there are plenty of things we nominate that do not have a single “correct” location for the pin. If placing the pin on the east side of a playground allows it to be in Pokemon GO, but placing it on the west side will place it in an occupied cell, that matters. It especially matters for rural players who are struggling to get wayspots.
I came across a review in a small country town yesterday. The submission was not something I approved. But when I looked at the map, there were a few other things around that would have been “easy acceptances.” There was also a situation where the pins for a church and its playground were in the same L17 cell. Based on how the cells worked, either one of those could have accurately been placed in the adjacent cell. With better placement, that cell could have had a gym. How many times has this happened in rural areas where people are doing their best to submit eligible things but because they don’t know where the cells are or the inclusion rules, they’ve basically ruined the map? And now because of Wayfarer policy we can’t fix this silly situation because moving a wayspot simply to make it appear has been called “abuse?”
There’s a disconnect between Wayfarer policy calling that abuse and Pokemon GO’s desire to give rural people more places to play. I think it would be fantastic if we could find a way to more easily reconcile these issues under Scopely. Whatever system Niantic Spatial institutes for Ingress should be able to balance their game play issues and mapping issues as well.
I had a review today where the poi was not going to go live in Pokemon Go where they placed it, but could easily have been pinned in a still accurate location so that it would. I did not move the pin, since there wasn’t a strictly better place for it, but so wish there were a process that would have allowed an adjustment for game play reasons.
they dont want you to know.. thats the whole point. they want you to submit to submit not pick and choose when you submit. otherwise there would’ve been a map in the first place. iitc was not created for pogo…
The community almost got that one basic thing, a map of all wayspots with details and coordinates, called “wayfarer app.” It was only missing one key feature: logging in with a wayfarer account.
Where is it now? Would asking to revive the wayfarer app make it more likely to happen? (And then players could use their favourite maps to check the cells if needed).
Intelmap is only owned by Ingress, which will soon become a separate company.
PoGo and Wayfarer cannot claim ownership.
So far it has only been used by some PoGo trainers, who have become Ingress AG for a use not originally intended.
IITC is also not owned by Ingress as it is a plugin to Intelmap to make it easier to see for a specific use.
I have heard that the reason users are not banned at this time is because they are not committing fraudulent acts such as hacking the servers.
However, since this is a gray area, there is always the risk of being banned.
Personally, I think that the Wayspot Viewer, which is based on the former Wayfarer application and from which the submission and Edit functions have been removed, is sufficient.
Because what we are asking for is just a wayspot.
It is not a pokestop.
All we want to know is whether the POI is already a wayspot.
Whether the cell is free or not and whether it is far enough away from an existing wayspot are features that are not necessary for a wayspot submission.
I think this is a good time, and I think we should remove anything that might encourage abuse.
That may be your motivation. But that is not the motivation for the majority of people who are submitting wayspots. With the map primarily feeding Pokemon GO and us only having 40 nominations to use, people need to be more certain that they aren’t wasting their efforts. Nominating something that already exists or has no chance of appearing in the game wastes a person’s time and effort. That is disrespectful to the user base who are simply doing their best to improve the gameboard.
As far as abuse is concerned, they have a lot of systems in place to track and punish abuse. We need to move past the idea that we can’t have nice/good things because someone will abuse it. The abusers will be dealt with. The good users need good tools to support them.
It is not a pokestop in PoGo, so I won’t submit it.
That is not a statement that I would expect from a Wayfarer ambassador.
Wayfarer doesn’t own Pokémon GO.
Wayfarer Ambassadors represent the Wayfarer community. The majority of people who submit want to see their submissions in the game they play. If you do not care, you are well in the minority.
Would asking to revive the wayfarer app make it more likely to happen? (And then players could use their favourite maps to check the cells if needed).